There are 6 article(s) tagged Jim Sweeney:

• July 2021

  • Poplar Healthcare sold to AI software firm

    Poplar Healthcare supports physicians across the country witha variety of technologies to process lab specimens.

    By Jane Roberts July 27, 2021

  • Fourth of July may mark a turning point in pandemic

    Independence Day gatherings and parades mark a return to near-normalcy. But COVID-19 cast a shadow on July 4, as 66 new cases pushed Shelby County over the 100,000 mark. Many are the highly contagious Delta variant.

    By Daja E. Henry July 04, 2021

• March 2021

  • Highly contagious, resistant P.1 variant presents new challenges

    The P.1 variant, a mutation of the Brazilian strain, can infect people who have already had COVID-19; the vaccine is thought to be less effective against it.

    By Jane Roberts March 30, 2021

  • UK variant numbers rising in Memphis

    Poplar Healthcare identified 15 cases of UK variant in the first run of samples, and the University of Memphis has quarantined students to contain an outbreak there.

    By Jane Roberts March 10, 2021

• January 2021

  • Local scientists, labs rushing to sequence UK variant

    Variant doesn’t appear to be more virulent but could ramp reproduction rate here from 1.07 to 1.57 and dramatically increase deaths. 

    By Jane Roberts January 11, 2021

• July 2020

  • Pool analysis could cut COVID-19 testing costs in half; Memphis among first to apply

    Pool testing has been used for other diseases for decades; Memphis among first cities to apply for FDA emergency-use approval.

    By Jane Roberts July 07, 2020